In this drawing, the great Saul Steinberg captures different lives in their journey from birth (A) to the end (B). It's hard to imagine ...

I'm sure there's a technical name for those squiggly black lines that artists put in the background to complete a picture. Frank...

The last king of the Ashanti empire, Assantehene Agyeman Prempeh , was surrounded by victorious British troops clamoring for him to come out...

The great French impressionists did not have plastic raincoats, so when Monet or Renoir wanted to study the reflections of light on transluc...

In 1886, Camille Claudel dictated a contract for her lover to sign. Claudel was only a young art student but her lover, the great sculpt...

I love this picture from an old reference book about birds. The anonymous artist could have presented the same basic information a thousand ...

During World War II, the illustrator William A. Smith was sent by the OSS to China, where he spent time behind enemy lines working on the p...

Artist Gary Panter is all over the news lately. Hollywood gossip magazine Entertainment Weekly placed him on this week's "Must...